.Well, it was Sean Penn's finest role and performance. Maybe because it was so close to reality?
Posted on 07/17/2022 5:42:04 AM PDT by Rummyfan
“You old, red-faced ************.”
That’s the line Sean Penn delivered to Ray Walston in 1982’s classic Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Penn was playing Jeff Spicoli, a surfer and stoner, and Walston Mr. Hand, a tight-assed history teacher. The two clash when Spicoli’s late for class. Mr. Hand sends him to the principal, and Spicoli reacts by calling Mr. Hand a “dick.”
Not in the final film is Penn’s effort to get Walston truly riled up and add some genuine tension to the scene. As the camera panned over to Walston, Penn dropped the bomb about Hand being a red-faced MF’er. Walston wasn’t pleased.
That’s one of the bits of trivia found on the new Criterion Collection edition of Fast Times at Ridgemont High. It’s one of the best teen movies of the 1980s and deserves inclusion in the highbrow Criterion Collection. The film’s success and continued relevance is mostly due to director Amy Heckerling. Although the movie is based on the book by Cameron Crowe, it was Heckerling who fought the studio to capture the tone and stye of the film. Heckerling suggested Fast Times be set mostly in a mall. She refused to put any adults in the film. She rejected bland conventional choices for music, insisting the Go-Gos “We Got the Beat” open the film, a perfect choice.
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.Well, it was Sean Penn's finest role and performance. Maybe because it was so close to reality?
Sean Penn is a leftist buffoon troublemaker but he can put on a good show...
Sleazy movie targeting youth.
Down there with Dirty Dancing, and FlashDance as the worst movies of the decade
The Professor and the Madman - with Penn and Mel Gibson is fantastic movie. Penn was great. It is about writing the first Oxford Dictionary.
Love this movie. Ray Walston, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Phoebe Cates, Oingo Boingo song at the end. Epic.
Besides Sean Penn playing Spicoli, I thought the part played by Phoebe Cates was quite revealing as well, in fact she could have stolen the glory from Penn.
Sure was, and I must’ve seen it at least fifty times!!!
Oh come on. We all know the one, well, two good things about that movie.
Dirty Dancing and Flashdance were indeed trash. But they were good for getting my dates in the proper mindset. So, they were not useless.
I liked the scene where the teacher turned the tables on the idiot Spicoli and shared his pizza with the class.
Funny...I just watched that movie with my brother a few days ago...I enjoyed watching it!
Mr. Hand was a. great character.
“You dick!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMtdrKIdDgE
The pizza:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6J8__fWphE0
Can’t miss Judd Reinhold ... the guy that wanted to excel, did all the wrong things, a real loser. His cleaning the mirror in the restaurant restroom while practicing how to dump his girlfriend to pursue his dreams is a classic set up to his then getting dumped by her before he can dump her.
Yes, Sean Penn at his peak. It was a great movie; one particularly enjoyed Mr. Hand showing up at Spicoli’s house on graduation eve.
If you were in your teens or early 20s (MTV generation) in the US when this came out you’d probably get it.
Reviewing your profile I doubt that’s the case. :^)
“enjoyed Mr. Hand showing up at Spicoli’s house on graduation eve”
The wall art in spicolli’s room is what I enjoyed most in that scene. 😉
Sean Penn is a great actor. Great actors are often insane Leftists. They are character actors who can believe things they know are not true.
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